Poetry audiobooks

I Would Leave Me If I Could.

By: Halsey

Narrated by: Halsey

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of their generation. In I Would Leave Me If I Could, they reveal never-before-seen poetry of longing, love, and the nuances of bipolar disorder.

In this debut collection, Halsey bares their soul. Bringing the same... Read more

Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast

By: Jack Prelutsky

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection from the celebrated first Young People’s Poet Laureate and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky, featuring more than one hundred original poems! Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast is guaranteed to make readers laugh, imagine, write, and dream. From a lizard playing a mandolin (although not very well) to the surprised guest of honor (at... Read more

This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Work is love made visible.” - Khalil GibranFilled with wisdom, written in simple, poetic language, The Prophet is a book for all ages, which remains amazingly relevant to our times. This audiobook, narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, contains two full versions of The Prophet: Part One, with music by Stefan Frankenberger. Part Two, with... Read more

Forever England : The Life Of Rupert Brooke

By: Mike Read

Narrated by: Mike Read

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded... Read more

Hymn to Proserpine

By: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was a poet, critic, novelist and playwright. He was born in London and educated at Eton and Oxford and was a contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelites. “Hymn to Proserpine” was published in 1866 in “Poems and Ballads,” Swinburne's first collection of poems which was a great success but which contained subjects... Read more

Nonsense Songs and Laughable Lyrics

By: Edward Lear

Narrated by: Roy Macready

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a verse writer named Lear Who said “in the future I fear That the verses I write be recorded (they might) for all who desire so to HEAR” (R.M. with apologies to E. L.) Edward Lear is justly renowned as a writer of humorous verse. His “Nonsense Songs”were published in 1871 and includes probably his best known and most loved poem “The... Read more

Seven

By: Nnemka Agbafe

Narrated by: Kate Leonard

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From a young age we are fed fairytales of princes and princesses from far away lands in a distant and ultimately elusive time and age. But what does that “true love” look like in today’s dystopian society? Lust? Infatuation? Unrequited longing? What’s forever? Love is …. Well, I’ll let you decide. -nn Read more

Timeless Love

By: William Shakespeare, John Keats & Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates the beauty and the agony of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from beloved writers.Because it defines human existence, love is one of art’s favorite subjects. Timeless Love: Poems, Stories, and Letters celebrates the mysterious nature of love and passion by bringing together classic... Read more

The Big J vs The Big C: Issues, Experiences and Poems in the Battle Against Breast Cancer

By: Janine Booth

Narrated by: Janine Booth

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, author and activist Janine Booth was part of the ranting poetry movement of the eighties, performing as 'The Big J'. In late 2016, she discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. In this collection of candid journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics,... Read more

The Raven

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Raven by American writer Edgar Allan Poe was firstt published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught young man lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore.
Poe claimed to have written the poem with the intention to... Read more

Build Yourself a Boat

By: Camonghne Felix

Narrated by: Camonghne Felix

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory. Read more

Edipo Rey (la versión completa)

By: Sófocles

Narrated by: Ely Garcia

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Sumérgete en el intrigante mundo de la tragedia clásica griega con el audiolibro de "Edipo Rey" de Sófocles. Esta cautivadora obra maestra te transportará a la antigua Grecia, donde te adentrarás en la apasionante historia de Edipo y su búsqueda desesperada de la verdad.
Escucha cada palabra y déjate llevar por la narración magistral que da vida... Read more

Broken to unbreakable - 12 steps to an unbreakable mind, body and spirit

By: Krissy Regan

Narrated by: Krissy Regan, Jessica Stokes & Dave Stokes

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

• Do you look into the future and see a healthy person?• Are you thinking about your bank balance or what’s left in your physical tank by the time you hang up your boots?• Have you wondered what it would feel like to have an unbreakable mind, body and spirit, capable of weathering any storm? This is the book for you! This book is designed to get... Read more

Riven

By: Catherine Owen

Narrated by: Catherine Owen

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry In 2010, Catherine Owen’s 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial shock, the river became her focus: a natural, damaged space that both intensifies emotion and... Read more

Travelling Tinker Man & Other Rhymes

By: David Essex

Narrated by: David Essex

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

In the 70s he was a huge pop star, with Number 1 hits like 'Rock On' and 'Hold Me Close'. In the 80s and 90s he became a star of the stage with lead roles in Godspell and Mutiny! Now comes a wonderful collection of David Essex’s poetry and lyrics. Here are nostalgic poems recalling his family's traveller roots, verses filled with memories of his... Read more

The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

By: Kei Miller

Narrated by: Kei Miller

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it (‘I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land’), is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this... Read more

Of Love And Desire

By: Louis de Bernières

Narrated by: Louis de Bernières

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems, written over a lifetime, capturing its many forms: from rapture, infatuation and urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernières’ first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of... Read more

What the Road Said

By: Cleo Wade

Narrated by: Cleo Wade

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

What the Road Said is the comforting and uplifting children's audiobook from bestselling poet and activist Cleo Wade.

Which way do I go?
That is your choice to make,
said the Road.

But what if I go the wrong way?
The Road curved a little,
almost as if it was giving me a hug, and said,
Do not worry. Sometimes we go... Read more

The Collection Plate

By: Kendra Allen

Narrated by: Kendra Allen

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found... Read more

FUCK'EM

By: Markeisha Darden

Narrated by: Inspire

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“I‘M NOT A BITTER BITCH I’M JUST A WOMAN WHO IS TIRED OF YOUR SHIT!”  This book is not meant to bash men but simply to empower other women as I learn to take my power back. So many times we give so much of ourselves in a relationship only to leave with nothing left. I wrote this book of poetry to inspire you as life has inspired me. We have to... Read more

A Sight to Behold

By: Ann B. Rhodes

Narrated by: Ann B. Rhodes

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Sight to Behold" is a continuation of the first poetry book "From the Beginning Until Now". It contains a style of poetry that includes everlasting life, dealing with relationships, and much, much more. The main theme of this genre of poetry is that if you put God above all situations, you will always succeed. This poetry is based from some... Read more

American Melancholy

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Cheryl Smith

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious... Read more

Conversations with Good Men

By: Bethel Swift

Narrated by: Bethel Swift

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Swift’s poems compassionately explore the concept of man’s “goodness” in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety,... Read more